Oprah Interviews Anthony Ray Hinton, An Innocent Man Who Spent 30 Years on Death Row | NowThis

Anthony Ray Hinton was wrongfully convicted and spent 30 years on death row - now he's telling his story.
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Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.
He was wrongfully convicted of two murders and served nearly three decades in jail before being released in 2015. He also wrote a book about his time in prison called The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, which has since been selected for Oprah’s Book Club.
“Time is nothing like it once was. In fact, time don’t even exist.” he explained to Oprah, when asked if he kept track of the days or months while behind bars. “Because you’re in a place where - when they time is an end they gonna come get you. And they gonna strap you down in a chair.”
In his book, Hinton talks about how the justice system is stacked “against a poor black man.”
“It took the United States Supreme Court, I’ll never forget he came down to the prison, he said, ‘Ray, the judges in Alabama are not gonna do the right thing.’ And he said, ‘We’ll have to take this case to the United States Supreme Court.’ But he said, ‘I need to tell you something.’ He said, ‘If they rule against you, the state of Alabama will execute you within two years.’ And believe it or not, hearing that was somewhere of a relief. I was tired of sitting out the time, being in this cage. And I said, ‘Mr, Stevenson, file my case.’"
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[@dreamingoflouis330]

this broke my heart.

[@jackiesmith2710]

Why is it always the black man that gets locked up for years and then proved to be innocent how many more are locked up in jail and mental homes

[@woodsoncircle]

Wow, the judicial system took 30+ years from an innocent man. Just wow ! Good Bless Mr Hinton & his family.

[@sharondelpeche1653]

The best book I read, my tears never stop till the end of the book.

[@marloyorkrodriguez9975]

I’m rather saddened at the fact that he was never given an apology by the state court, the state police, and also the jurors who convicted him and caused him pain and suffering

[@Datbchik]

Why did it take 30 years to get him off though?

[@fiolioco1523]

He explains the whole process in his book called “the sun does shine” it’s his whole experience on death row. But basically since he was poor and Black, he didn’t have the money for any good attorney and everyone was racist and prejudiced. His first attorney basically asked for $50,000 to hire a new ballistics expert after the first one he hired was literally blind in one eye and didn’t know how to work the machines. While the expert said the bullet casings weren’t a match to the gun found at his house, he was deemed a charlatan and Hinton was guilty. His appeals and case renewals kept getting rejected, after 12ish years on death row, Hinton and his new attorney, Bryan Stevenson presented 31 valid reasons that he should get a retrial but the state of Alabama time barred all the evidence - reading the whole court script is infuriating. It honestly seemed like they just wanted him dead. They didn’t care that if he was innocent. So basically most of the time spent was trying to get appeals, retrials and everything they could get, which takes months and years to get approved / many were denied. The same judge (State of Alabama) literally left that same request from Bryan for a retrial for 2 YEARS before denying it. 2 YEARS. They were just racist and stubborn.

[@louisethomas8074]

Movie?

[@Walter-fz6od]

God is good God made a way out know way hallelujah Jesus amen 🙏

[@mikewhitman578]

All that money she has she should have given him some